“They are assembling together…” Purishkevich (to cholera while beating it with his umbrella): “It might be failing right now, we’ll have more ways to entertain the public.” (Purishkevich was an ultraconservative and anti-Semitic Russian politician who had recently fallen out with one set of protofascist allies and was cultivating a new group under the name “Russian People’s Union of the Archangel Michael.” Presumably Satirikon regarded neither Purishkevich nor cholera as good for the health of the Russian body politic.)
(Satirikon, St. Petersburg, 1908)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 